30
Aug/16

RADICALLY HAPPY: AN EVENING TALK WITH ERRIC SOLOMON AND KYABGÖN PHAKCHOK RINPOCHE

30
Aug/16
Erric Solomon and Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche will discuss the keys to being radically happy at the Helen Mills Theater on September 7

Erric Solomon and Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche will discuss the keys to being “radically happy” at the Helen Mills Theater on September 7

Who: Erric Solomon and Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche
What: Radically Happy
Where: Helen Mills Theater, 137 West 26th St. between Sixth & Seventh Aves.
When: Wednesday, September 7, $20-$45, 7:00
Why: Last August, I attended the talk “Being Radically Happy”in a SoHo gallery, where Tibetan yogi practitioner and Buddhist teacher Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche and Boston-born former Silicon Valley guru Erric Solomon discussed the radical nature of happiness. Three months later, I found myself in Kathmandu, taking two weeks of classes with Phakchok and one of his uncles, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche. On September 7, Phakchok and Solomon will be back in New York City, at the Helen Mills Theater, for “Radically Happy.” “Everyone wants to be happy and live a meaningful life, yet the way we usually go about it can only bring a very temporary happiness at best and, at worst, leads to extreme dissatisfaction and suffering,” the Nepal-based Phakchok and Solomon, who lives in France, explain. “By making a slight but radical shift in the way we live our lives, a subtle sense of satisfaction and well-being can be ours even when things really aren’t working out.” The two friends take a common-sense approach to life, concentrating on two main elements: “slightly shifting our way of relating to ourselves and slightly altering how we relate to the world around us.” The talk is a prelude to Phakchok’s week-long teachings at the Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Meditation Center in Cooperstown, during which he will focus on “Mahāmudrā and 9 Yānas Retreat and Empowerments.”